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About Cube - The Autonomous Car Security Platform

We have recently been advised about the Cube Autonomous Car security platform. We expect Blockchain to be integrated more widely into Autonomous driving applications over the coming months, so we hope the below article will be of interest.

These days, the car is a mass of software with over a million lines of code. Cars started to use morenetworks, and autonomous cars should depend on the network heavily for self driving. It uses networknavigation route, traffic information, vehicle to vehicle information, and remote ECU upgrade.This means that autonomous vehicles have a greater risk of being hacked. Perhaps no one has eversuffered from a hacking virus once or twice. However, if a self-propelled vehicle is hacked, it can be ahuge risk.

Cube creates a security system that protects these autonomous vehicles from hacking. Unlike pastmethods that did not prevent hacking, we use blockchain technology. Applying blockchain is not ahack at all, unless you hack hundreds of thousands of computers at the same time. Cube usesblockchains, artificial intelligence, and Quantum Hash Cryptography technology.

The most hackable and exposed attack surface on an autonomous carBlockchain LayerCube uses block-chain technology to ensure the security of autonomous mobile networks. But thereare various difficulties in applying traditional blockchain technology to autonomous vehicle safety.Blockchain instantiations suffers from high overhead and low scalability. Cube solves these limitationsof traditional BC technology with hybrid BC.

In the operation of autonomous vehicles, many IOTs provide information to autonomous vehicles. Theattacker seeks to gain access to the network between an autonomous car and IoT or traffic center,and manipulate the software binary with the goal of injecting malware into a large number of vehicles.In such instances, the hash of the infected binary differs from the hash included in the multisigtransaction which is signed by the SW provider and the OEM. Thus, the vehicles can readily detectsuch an attack before installing the infected SW update. .

AI Deep Learning LayerThe second is AI Layer. So far, network security is a passive system that collects patches to preventpast hacking cases. Cube trains in supervisor mode in the past as a primary case, and construct adefense system against it by creating malicious attack scenarios that are likely to be made hundredsof millions of times. Cube’s Intrusion Detection System using Deep Neural Network for VehicleNetwork Security has two types, a discriminative deep architecture and a generative deeparchitecture, depending on how the architectures are exploited. After the pre-training, fine-tuning willbe performed using the gradient descent method with the supervised learning. While Blockchain isused as a first and main security method, AI Deep Learning based security will guarantee the doubledefense system.

Quantum Hashing Cryptography LayerBlockchain has improved security by using hashes appropriately. However, there is a growing concernthat as the performance of computers grows rapidly, hash cryptography can become a limitation.Cube develops quantum cryptography to prevent malicious attacks against autonomous vehicles.This Quantum Cryptography will contribute not only to the autonomous drive, but also to the overallupgrade of the entire Blockchain technology.

1) Cube is to receive a fair audit through a vote by five globally recognised and credibleaccounting firms.

2) Cube shall publish monthly operational and financial reports to share the operational statusof the company with its contributors.

3) When hiring new staff members, such as developers, Cube shall implement a validationprocess as well as thoroughly examining the candidates’ portfolios and setting rewardpolicies in accordance with their abilities.

4) The company’s budget shall be tightly managed so that it will always be possible to operateand manage the company without additional funding for more than three years.

Token Valuation PolicyTo protect its contributors and provide them with better profits, Cube will be operated as follows:

1) The executive managers of Cube are bound by a lock-up system, which means they are notentitled to make token sales for one year. The lock-up policy is intended to make sure theexecutive managers receive suitable rewards only after the company grows enough.

2) Cube shall strictly control the use of its budget to stably increase the value of Cube tokens. Atleast two-thirds of the beginning budget must remain after one year of funding. Using morethan one-third of the beginning budget for any single event requires the approval of at leasthalf of both the board and the contributors participating in the ballot.

TeamTeam members can be divided into three categories.

The first is the team for autonomous car communication part. Worldwide, autonomous vehicles were first created in 1995 by the computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Three members of that department, and oneMIT artificial intelligence student are key members of Cube.

The second category is the blockchain development team. Two key developers are from SamsungElectronics. (removed for personal data privacy reasons) was the (removed for personal data privacy reasons) of the cloud development team at Samsung Electronics,and (removed for personal data privacy reasons) was the (removed for personal data privacy reasons) of Samsung’s artificial intelligence development team.

Third category is the automotive team. 3 members (name removed for personal data privacy reasons)had worked at Daimler, and Porsche as developers.